{"id":9052,"date":"2025-02-10T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/at-least-50-die-in-guatemala-after-bus-plunges-off-bridge\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:01:09","slug":"at-least-50-die-in-guatemala-after-bus-plunges-off-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/at-least-50-die-in-guatemala-after-bus-plunges-off-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 50 die in Guatemala after bus plunges off bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            A bus veered off a highway bridge into a polluted ravine in Guatemala City early on Monday, killing at least 51 people and trapping survivors, a spokesperson for the city\u2019s fire department said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The densely packed bus was traveling into the capital from the town of San Agustin Acasaguastlan on a busy route into the city from when it plunged approximately 20 meters (65 feet) from Puente Belice, a highway bridge that crosses over a road and creek.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The spokesman, Carlos Hernandez, said the bodies of 36 men and 15 women had been sent to a provincial morgue set up for the accident.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Images shared by the fire department on social media showed the bus partially submerged in wastewater surrounded by victims\u2019 bodies.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo declared three days of national mourning and deployed the country\u2019s army and disaster agency to assist response efforts.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cI stand in solidarity with the families of the victims who today woke up to heartbreaking news. Their pain is my pain,\u201d Arevalo said on social media.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            <em>This story has been updated with additional developments.<\/em>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bus veered off a highway bridge into a polluted ravine in Guatemala City early on Monday, killing at least 51 people and trapping survivors, a spokesperson for the city\u2019s fire department said. The densely packed bus was traveling into the capital from the town of San Agustin Acasaguastlan on a busy route into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}